Andy, Here's the post from the cancer board. Doesn't say how patient is doing, but Melanoma is not listed on the cheat sheet for Targretin:
Doyle,
My husband Sy has courageously battled cancer for over a decade. He has
had ocular melanoma for 2 yrs and has had enucleation surgery at
Wills/Philadelphia in JAN 1996, and isolated liver perfusion operation
for the mets, at NIH/Bethesda in FEB 1997. He has survived this long
and is still battling the disease. This week, he just started on a brand
new drug protocol, Targretin, for Stage IV melanoma patients at M.D.
Anderson/Houston. The wonderful doctors there think he is a walking
miracle because the initial prognosis for this disease, with mets to
liver, is @ 6 months liver. Over the past 10 years, he has also done
battle with TCC of the bladder, and had it successfully treated by a
wonderful urologist at Johns Hopkins.
I will share with you how he has kept up his survival, enjoying each day
as it comes, and buying time hopefully,until there is a cure: |
